July
10, 2004 --
During the winter, LPR posted photos of GOP convention hotels as a service to
the delegates. With the convention less than two months away, LPR now calls attention
to tourist sites in Bloombergburg.
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The
Duffy Square press pen - to be a common sight when the
GOP is in town?
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This edition begins
at Duffy Square, where many of the open top red sight-seeing buses
begin their trip. One evening,
a few weeks ago, LPR met a lovely mother-daughter duo and here posts
their photo, not-withstanding the fact that the camera would not obey LPR's request
to focus on the persons, and not the
place.
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A
Mom and Daughter duo from St. Catherine, Ontario, Canada.
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There was an event
about to begin in the
square (at 47th Street) that evening, an event that provided a press pen. LPR
decided not to stay confined, shortly after meeting mother and daughter from
St.
Catherine, Ontario.
LPR has a hunch 47th Street might be the closest it will be able to get to the
GOP convention at Madison Square Garden, little more than half a mile down Seventh
Avenue. While being confined to a press pen, of course. (Will cameras be allowed?)
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Columbus
Circle on July 9th. LPR has a hunch this area will be all
spruced up by the time the GOP delegates arrive.
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As of July 9, Columbus
Circle -- address of the new Time Warner Building -- is still undergoing
construction. LPR has another hunch that the work will be completed
by time of the GOP National Convention, to be enjoyed by any delegates
who dare to travel as far north as 59th Street.
If Republicans
do decide to venture north of 59th Street, they are not likely
to be disappointed if they go to Aix, at 88th Street and Broadway,
for drinks, or dinner. (Aix is pronounced "ex")
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Aix,
at 88th Street and Broadway.
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Yankee Stadium,
of course, is in The Bronx, at 161st Street And River Avenue. Cleveland
will be visiting September 1 and 2, the last two days of the convention;
Baltimore will be at the Stadium, September 3 - 5. The Stadium is about
half an hour by subeay from mid-Manhattan.
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Yankee
Stadium, in the Bronx at 161st Street and River Avenue.
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The
Dakota is the building where the movie "Rosemary's
Baby" was filems, and where, at the entrance, John
Lennon was shot and killed on December 8, 1980.
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The
Dakota is the apartment building with gravitas on 72nd Street and
Central Park West. Alas, it will perhaps best be known for tragedy:
John Lennon, a resident of the Dakota, was shot and killed at the
72nd Street entrance, December 8, 1980.
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The
Statue of former President Teddy Roosevelt is in the front
of the Museum of Natural History.
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Nine
blocks up Central Park West is the American Museum of Natural History
and its statue of GOP icon Teddy Roosevelt on horseback, with native
Americans walking alongside. Hayden's Planetarium is behind the museum.
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Inside
Central Park, not far from the Museum of Natural History,
is the Delacorte Theater, with "Much Ado About Nothing" -
the summer production, and a cast including Sam Waterston
("Law and Order") and Jimmy Smits (formerly of "NYPD
Blue"). Here are three visitors from Belgium.
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Diagonally across
from the museum, inside Central Park is the Delacorte Theater which is
producing "Much Ado
About Nothing," this summer. The Delacorte season ends, however, about three
weeks before the Republicans come to town. LPR got this photo of three visitors
from Belgium early in the Delacorte 2004 season: Mie, Bartholomeeusen, Lotte
van Leuffel and
Lief Bartholomeeusen (l-r)
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What
on the East Side is a traffic direction, might be a political
credo on the West Side.
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There are a couple
of interesting signs on the east side, at Madison Avenue and 84th Street
that should be called to the attention of GOP delegates. They read: "WEST
SIDE/KEEP LEFT" These signs on Madison Avenue are obviously travel
directions, but LPR wonders that they are taken very seriously, in a
political context, on
the other side of Central Park.
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Grant's
Tomb.
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This
peace inscription was not placed by United for Peace and
Justice, it is a quote from U.S. Grant and appears on the
Grant's Tomb facade.
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If Republicans take
Riverside Drive as far as 122nd Street, they will see Riverside Church
on the right and Grant's Tomb on the left. This is to assure GOP delegates
that the inscription "LET US HAVE PEACE" comes from General
Grant -- not from Michael Moore or United For Peace and Justice.
The tour buses continue up Riverside Drive, near 125th Street, and within sight
of the George Washington Bridge, to return to midtown.
Next LPR--Some of the bridges of Reg City. And the Circle Line.
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